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James Franco covers Vman magazine's Decades Issue, on newsstands Thursday (October 27). Here's what the 33-year-old actor had to share: On life on and off the big screen: "There is a bit of a dichotomy between my work on camera as an actor and off-camera. I am still hired as an actor in commercial narrative films and my responsibility there is to create characters that are believable and entertaining in each given project. I don't see my participation in films like Milk or 127 Hours as anything other than storytelling devices among many such devices for the directors of those films. I am a collaborator, but a collaborator serving a director's vision." On people's skepticism of the concept of celebrity: "You know, I've embraced it now. I actually like this sort of superficial criticism of the work, because in a way it becomes this sort of beautiful reflection of our culture." ------ ✙ ------ ✙ ------ ✙ ------ SOURCE tyfyt